AQs vs AJs: preflop equity

AQs against AJs: the numbers

AQs meets AJs, and both are suited hands. The two hands share a rank, and the one with the better other card dominates: it wins most kicker battles when that shared rank hits.

AQs is the clear favorite, though AJs gets there on roughly one board in 3. About 5.29% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands.

AQs ranks number 10 of 169 starting hands, and AJs ranks number 11, by equity against a random hand.

12 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand.

The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity.

Who is ahead on which flops

The flop changes the picture. AQs does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 82.04%, and worst on monotone flops, at 64.35%. AQs stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.

A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank.

Compared with a random hand

Against one random hand instead, AQs holds 66.21% and AJs holds 65.39%. Facing each other changes that by +4.61 points for AQs and -36.21 points for AJs.

Does a shared suit matter?

Suits do not split this matchup, because no legal deal has the hands holding the same suit.

How often this matchup comes up

How often does it happen? 12 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0007%) are AQs against AJs, and 24 (0.0015%) if either hand may sit in either seat.

A worked example

Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, AQs' average share is $141.64 (a gain of $41.64) and AJs' is $58.36 (a loss of $41.64).

Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 682 wins for AQs, 265 for AJs and 53 chopped pots.

The same matchup from the other side

The reversed view, AJs against AQs, shows 29.18% for AJs and 70.82% for AQs. It is the same count, so it redirects here.

Keep exploring

AsQs against AhJh is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength.

• Open AsQs against AhJh in the equity calculator
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